Here's my current desktop. The background was a Google Image find; it is a very well framed and processed twilight shot of Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. Ljubljana Castle is at upper left.
I can tell that HDR was used to bring out subtle details in darker areas without oversaturating brighter spots, but tone mapping was thankfully kept to a minimum. The original's picture aspect compared to my standard 1080p screen was a happy accident; just enough of the sky shows so that my icons and weather desklet don't interfere with any of the city details.

(EDIT: Almost forgot the rest of the desktop info. Mint 17.1 Cinnamon, with standard Linux Mint theme. I'm thinking of switching to the BlackIce theme, though.)

Make sure to check out my imgur album Linux Mint 17 Qiana Cinnamon Edition
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It's a keeper if I can figure out one graphics bug that shows up once in a while. My menus in some applications turn completely transparent and I have to restart to get them back... Other than that it's great!

I really like this new LMDE 2, it has a lot under the hood making it a very solid distro release. Openbox is my ideal window manager and fluxbox as well, just easy to catalog your apps in a way you find them easily. The cool thing with LMDE 2 is that I was able to keep all the excellent LM apps and added those to my already existing obmenu. I am super pleased with this release, folks at LMDE worked hard on this one. Thanks to all the hard work folks - nuffsaid